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Secret History of Infocom's Never-Released "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" Game

One of the coolest text adventure games of the 1980s was Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, based on Douglas Adams' bestselling novel of the same name. Though the game was wildly popular, and a sequel to it was rumored repeatedly, nobody has ever known exactly what happened to that sequel. Until now. Andy Baio, the investigative journo-technologist at Waxy, has received a mysterious network drive from which he recovered all the notes, plans, emails, and information about what Infocom was going to do with the sequel that would have been called Milliways. And he's published it for all to see. More »

3:16 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,740 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: @Liz Henry: True enough, and much of the non-linear game design of current RPGs, contemporary games and even quests in MMOs owe a nod to Infocom games and the old choose your own adventure novels. Sure what was once done with text more »